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Re: Gratuitous user interface change risks losing user work
From: |
Gregory Stark |
Subject: |
Re: Gratuitous user interface change risks losing user work |
Date: |
Sat, 06 Jan 2007 22:33:34 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Chris Moore" <address@hidden> writes:
> Gregory Stark <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> No, it didn't; I looked. The latest backup file I had was a couple weeks old.
>
> OK. I didn't test this much, but I thought when I did that I saw it
> make a backup at that point.
I think it will if it's the first time you're saving the buffer since you
created it. But I tend to keep my emacs processes live for weeks or even
months. So I get one backup file and then no protection from then on.
> Prefixed with two C-u's, unconditionally makes the previous version
> into a backup file.
I think what I want is an option to make this the default behaviour.
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Gregory Stark
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